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J; GOUDET & G. DURDZAD DEVICE FOR STOPPING RUNAWAY HORSES.

No. 265,059.- PatentedfSept. 26, 1882. v

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

- JACQUES GOUDET AND GABRIEL DUROZAD, OF LYONS, FRANCE.

DEVICE FOR STOPPING RUNAWAY HORSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 265,059, dated September 26, 1882,

Application filed August 4, 1882. (No model.) Patented in France July 31, 1880, No. 138,073 in Belgium July 3, 1882, No. 58,367; in England (provisional) July 11, 1682, No. 3,277, and in Italy July 14, 1882, XVI, 14,412.

To all whom it may cancer-n:

Be it known that we, JACQUES GOUDET and and GABRIEL DUROZAD, citizens of France, both at present residing in Lyons, Department of the Rhone, France, have invented an Improvement in Devices for Stopping Runaway Horses, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the present invention is to stop a runaway horse by means of pressure upon the nostrils, the same as is often done by the hand in running alongside of the animal, but with this difference, that the elfect is obtained mechanically either from the seat of the driver, the saddle of the rider, or 011 the ground at the side of the horse, and this pressure can be graduated at will by the pull upon a supplemental rem.

The apparatus employed for the above purpose is represented in the drawings annexed, in which Figure l is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a plan with the parts out of use, and Fig. 3 is a plan with the parts in the position they assume when pressing upon the air-passages of the horses nose. It is secured like the noseband to the side straps of the bridle by straps and buckles a, a, Fig. 1.

At the front, covering the nose of the horse, is the mechanism of the apparatus. (Seen in detail in Figs. 2 and 3.) It is composed of two balls or pressers, b b, of rubber or any other similar material, secured near the extremities to the inner side of a spring-plate, c, fixed to the inner part of the noseband f. This plate is covered with leather, so as not to injure the animal. On the opposite or outer side of the spring 0 arentwo hinged levers, d d, hinged to the spring 0 and passing through openings made in the nose-band for them, and extending toward each other in front of the band,

plate 0 lies fiat against the interior of the ban d f, as shown in Fig. 2, the pressers b b being remote from each other and at each .side of the nose of the animal and without inconvenience to him.

The stop-lines l are secured to the rings e c at the ends of the levers 1, and pass through two rings, 9 g, at the sides of the nose-strapf. These two lines should unite on the back of the horse in 'a single line the end of which is in the hand of the driver, rider, or person on foot. If this rein is pulled upon, the levers open at first until their heels press upon the plate 0.

It the pull is continued, the plate 0 will bend in its middle. The balls I) will approach each other atthe same time, moving inwardly from the interior of the nose-band, as seen in Fig. 3. This movement compresses the air-passages of the horses nose and suspends more or less his respiration and forces him to stop.

The advantages of this apparatus are, first, its simplicity necessitates no additional piece to the harness; second, the ease of operating 7 it, either by a single pull or progressively, asrequired, and with perfect confidence as to safety and without danger of injuring the animal.

We are aware that horses have been stopped by pressure upon the air-passages of the nostrils by hand, and also that devices have been applied upon the headstall for pressing on said passages when a rein or line is drawn upon. 

